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named after a famous holly hedge which it replaces. Eastward of 
this is the ground belonging to Lord Dartmouth, formerly called 
Quaggs, and now covered by Dermody Road (named after the 
poet) and part of Pascoe and Ennersdale Roads to the river. 
Eastdown Park perpetuates the ancient name of the slope om which 
it, with Wisteria Road, is built, a name at least as old as the 
14th century. 
Adjoining College Farm, in the High Street, were two old 
houses of the 18th century, now Nos. 137 to 141, marked in plans 
of 1793 as “‘ Mr. Evan’s Estate.” Their position, occupying but 
little space, hemmed in between the College property and that of 
‘“The Limes,” then the property of Lord Eliot, is curious. Of 
PLate 41.—TuHeE OLp ‘‘ WHITE Harr” INN, 1870. 
‘The Limes’ we shall have more to say, and meanwhile we will 
cross the road and continue the story from Fuller’s Place. At the 
corner of this lane for many years stood the village smithy (the 
chestnut tree, it will be remembered, was down by the ‘‘ Roebuck.”’) 
After the smithy, the site was tenanted as a baker’s, but has for 
some time now been devoted to secondhand books. The next 
house has always been a butcher’s as long as the oldest inhabitant 
can remember. 
The ‘‘ White Hart,’’ which stood on the site of No. 162, and 
of which a representation is given in Plate 41, was another of the 
old Lewisham wayside inns, although, curiously enough, there is 
no mention of it in the Parish Registers or other documents. The 
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